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As with many legal issues, the answer is: it depends. If the acquisition is a stock purchase and the acquired company (we'll call it Company B) maintains a separate existence, the non-compete is unaffected. Company B will still be around to enforce the Agreement.
The court held that absent specific language prohibiting assignment, noncompete covenants, even though part of a personal service contract, remain enforceable by an assignee when transferred to the assignee as part of a sale or transfer of business assets regardless of whether the employment contract contains a clause
If a business has a major change in ownership, (the sale of a business, for example), part of the terms of the sale may be the assignment of the contract to the new owner.As part of the buy/sell process, a new contract may be substituted for a previous contract, with the agreement of both parties.
Typically, the only way to fight a non-compete agreement is to go to court. If you are an employee (or former employee) who signed such an agreement, this means you must violate the agreement and wait to be sued. It may be that your former employer has never sued another employee to enforce the non-compete agreement.
Voiding a non-compete contract is possible in certain circumstances. For instance, if you can prove that you never signed the contract, or if you can demonstrate that the contract is against the public interest, you may be able to void the agreement.
Typically, the only way to fight a non-compete agreement is to go to court. If you are an employee (or former employee) who signed such an agreement, this means you must violate the agreement and wait to be sued. It may be that your former employer has never sued another employee to enforce the non-compete agreement.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued a decision in July 2016 stating that a non-compete agreement could be enforced by a company that bought all the assets of the employer.
The value of a non-competition agreement is represented by the present value of the cash flows that would be lost if the covenanter were to compete, adjusted for the effective probability that the covenanter would compete, and compete successfully.